 Changing Business Models in Banking and Systemic RiskChapter 8 in Management of Permanent Change, 2015, pp 145-160 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The changing economic environment did affect the nature of banking in a profound way. Both easy monetary policy causing low interest rates as well as increasing globalization exerting competitive pressure on lending margin significantly reduced net interest margins in traditional lending. In particular, after the high interest rate period of the late 1980s long-term lending and house-bank relations did suffer severely. As a reaction the banking sector at large increasingly focused on short-term trading and investment banking. This process was accompanied by regulatory incentives and internal governance structures. In particular, the increasing focus on short term compensation based on return on equity, together with the Basle process of capital regulation opened ways of reducing loss absorbing capital and thus undermining banks’ stability as well as the resiliency of the banking sector at large. Both, the reactions of business models to a changing competitive environment as well as reactions to monetary as well as regulatory policy significantly contributed to systemic risk in Europe and the US. Keywords: Marginal Lending; Sound Balance Sheets; Stock Repurchases; Resilient Banking System; Northern Rock (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-658-05014-6_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-05014-6_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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